{"id":6413,"date":"2022-02-24T11:52:48","date_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=6413"},"modified":"2022-02-24T11:52:48","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T11:52:48","slug":"pm-imran-khan-meets-russian-president-vladimir-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-meets-russian-president-vladimir-putin\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Imran Khan meets Russian President Vladimir Putin"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"content-area\" data-io-article-url=\"https:\/\/www.geo.tv\/latest\/401228-putin-to-meet-imran-khan-in-three-hour-long-meeting-amid-ukraine-crisis\">\n<p>MOSCOW: The meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Russian President Vladimir Putin is underway, with both leaders discussing bilateral relations and other important matters.<\/p>\n<p>The one-on-one three-hour-long meeting comes amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">PM Imran Khan will also discuss issues including economic cooperation hours after a number of Western nations hit Russia with new sanctions for its military deployment into parts of eastern Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>PM Imran Khan arrived in Moscow on a two-day official visit yesterday, where he was received at the airport by Russia&#8217;s Deputy Foreign Minister and presented with a guard of honor at the airport.<\/p>\n<p>PM is set to push for the construction of a long-delayed, multi-billion-dollar gas pipeline to be built in collaboration with Russian companies, an official told\u00a0<i>Reuters<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Both countries are eager to launch the project at the earliest,&#8221; Pakistan&#8217;s energy ministry spokesman told\u00a0<i>Reuters\u00a0<\/i>about the Pakistan Stream gas pipeline. He confirmed that Energy Minister Hammad Azhar is accompanying Khan on the visit.<\/p>\n<p>The 1,100 km (683 mile)-long pipeline, also known as the North-South gas pipeline, was initially agreed to in 2015 and was to be financed by both Moscow and Islamabad, using a Russian company to construct it.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview ahead of his trip, PM Imran Khan had expressed concern about the situation in Ukraine and the possibility of new sanctions and their effect on Islamabad&#8217;s budding cooperation with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear how the latest sanctions will affect the project, which would deliver imported Liquified Natural Gas (LNG) from Karachi on the Arabian Sea coast to power plants in Punjab.<\/p>\n<h2>FM Qureshi meets Russian counterpart<\/h2>\n<p>Separately, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov discussed important regional and global issues amid the Moscow-Kyiv crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">During the meeting, Pakistan and Russia reaffirmed their commitment to further strengthen bilateral relations, with FM Qureshi assuring his counterpart that Islamabad gives importance to its relationship with Moscow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pakistan attaches special importance to bilateral relations with Russia [&#8230;] relations between Pakistan and Russia have gradually strengthened,&#8221; FM Qureshi said while speaking on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The foreign minister said Pakistan is pursuing the agenda of promoting economic priorities and regional ties under the vision of PM Imran Khan.<\/p>\n<p>The two leaders discussed important regional and global issues, including bilateral relations, enhancing cooperation in areas of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prime Minister <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ImranKhanPTI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ImranKhanPTI<\/a> has left for meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/PMIKinRussia?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#PMIKinRussia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/76d7hfHbgH\">pic.twitter.com\/76d7hfHbgH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Prime Minister&#39;s Office (@PakPMO) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PakPMO\/status\/1496809006765162502?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Later, Lavrov congratulated FM Qureshi and Pakistani leadership for successfully conducting the extraordinary Organisation of Islamic Cooperation&#8217;s (OIC) Council of Foreign Ministers session on Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Russian foreign minister also expressed best wishes regarding the upcoming meeting of the OIC Council of Foreign Ministers in Islamabad next month.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\"><em><strong>Read more:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/pm-imran-khan-reaches-russia-on-two-day-official-visit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">PM Imran Khan reaches Russia on two-day official visit<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MOSCOW: The meeting between Prime Minister Imran Khan and Russian President Vladimir Putin is underway, with both leaders discussing bilateral relations and other important matters. The one-on-one three-hour-long meeting comes amid the Russia-Ukraine crisis. PM Imran Khan will also discuss issues including economic cooperation hours after a number of Western nations hit Russia with new [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":6415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,2],"tags":[1062,3288,532,1110,138],"class_list":["post-6413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","category-pakistan","tag-moscow","tag-oic","tag-russia","tag-russian-president-vladimir-putin","tag-pakistan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}